Found 1 items, similar to on the face of it.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: on the face of it on the face of it adv : from appearances alone; “irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land”; “the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned”; “had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it”-Thomas Hardy; “on the face of it the problem seems minor” [syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly]